The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-02-23

| Gu W CuouSo HIS Noeo, duu NOtcu
aye. Instantly Mr.. Sommerville,
of Brooke, was on his feet and
changed his vote from no to aye,
and Mr.. Flournoy, of Hampshire,
did the same, whereupon the clerk
announced the vote,
AYES 30, NOES 6, AND so HOUSE JoINT
RESOLUTION NO l Is
AGREED TO.
The friends of the Amendment
were not surprised by the vote of
MIR. Price, President, as they were
known to desire that the Amend
ment should be submitted after
measuring the sentiment and
pressure in favor of the measure.
AS to Mr.. Sommerville, his course
all through the conflict has been an
enigma to his friends. 1t was
plain that his sympathies, con-
science and judgment were all for
the Amendment, while the liquor
pow er of Wheeling seemed to have
a mortgage on his Sen atorial SER
vices and vote. Why he changed
from no to age and then moved to
reconsider, the public, whose SER
want he was and is, must decide,
and that the Freeman may not be
open to any charge of misstatirg
facts that will henceforth be histo.
~ in West Virginia, the following
is copied from page of
SENATE JOURNAL, FEB. II, 1887.
After the change OF votes as
noted, the Senate Journal reads as
follows:
The said vote was then announced as fol-
lows;
The ayes were:
Messrs. Price, (President,) Arnold, Bond,
Brown, Carr, Dawson, Flournoy, Furbee,
Gwinn, Maxwell, Minear, Morris, Norris
son, McCreery, Sommerville, Snyder,
Sweeney, Switzer, Van Pelt and woodward
30.
The noes were:
Messrs. Gettinger, McCaliister, Oxley,
Price, (of Marshall.) Scott enl Unger-6
SO the said Joint Resolution having been
read on three several days in the Senate,
was agreed to on its third reading by two
thirds of the members elected thereto.
Mr.. SO mmervllle moved to reconsider the
vote by which the said Joint Resolution
was agreed to.
Mr.. Dawson moved to lay that motion on
the table.
on that motion Nr. Sommervile demand
ed the ayes and noes, and the demand be-
ing sustained, they We're ordered and taken
as follows:
The ayes were:
Messrs. Price, (Prssident,) Arnold, Bond,
Brown, Carr, Dawson, Furbee, Gettingery
Gwinn, Maxwell, Mbnear, Morris, Morrison,
McCreery, Snyder, Switzer, and woodward
III.
The noes were:
Messrs. Flournoy, MoCallister, Oxley,
Price, {of Marshall,) Scott, Sommerville,
UHger and Van Pelt-a
Mr.. Sweeney not voting.
SO the motion to reconsider was laid ON
she table.
During the less than five min
utes occupied in the announce
ment of the vote, and the clinch-
ing of the result by laying the
motion to reconsider on the table,
the deepest silence and intensest
anxiety prevailed.
The liquor lobby were utterly
dunn bounded, while their advo-
Gates in the Legislature were APP
parently as much astounded. Of
course the women present were
wild with joy and you could tell
every Temperance man in the
Capitol by the sunshine in his
face.
But there is no room here and
now for further comments over
this
GLORIOUS ENDING OF FIVE WEEKS
FIGHT.
There will be ample time in the
next two years, and room in the
Freeman for many interesting in
Icidents during this prolonged and
memorable struggle for the right
of the People to be heard at the
Ballot Box. But here and now let
it be known, after all the Petit
tions and Prayers of the People
had failed, that
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